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years afterwards; and I find other records of this bird 

 having been killed in Berkshire. Mr. Daniel further states 

 that the late Duke of Northumberland preserved many in 

 hopes of their increasing upon his manors, and he also adds, 

 that he himself, in 1777, found a covey of fourteen within 

 two miles of Colchester. Some attempts were also made 

 by the late Earl of Rochford. Dr. W. B. Clarke, of 

 Ipswich, says, in Mr. Charlesworth's Magazine of Natural 

 History for 1839, that numbers were introduced into Eng- 

 land about the year 1770 by the Marquis of Hertford and 

 Lord Rendlesham, each of whom had eggs procured on the 

 Continent, carefully brought to England, and placed under 

 domestic fowls ; the former at Sudbourn, near Orford, in 

 Suffolk, one of his shooting residences ; the latter on his 

 estates at Rendlesham, a few miles distant from Sudbourn ; 

 from these places the birds have been gradually extending 

 themselves over the adjoining counties. 



Mr. Alfred Newton sends me word that in the part of 

 Suffolk near which he resides, the Red-legged Partridge 

 was not much known till after 1823, when it was intro- 

 duced by Lords De Ros and Alvanley at Culford, near 

 Bury St. Edmunds, whence the birds spread rapidly on 

 the adjoining estates, and are now very plentiful. The 

 eggs were brought from France, as Mr. Newton was told 

 by his father, who well remembers their introduction. Mr. 

 Newton further remarks, that this species begins to lay its 

 eggs earlier than the Common Partridge, but it has a habit 

 of dropping its first eggs about in a desultory manner, so 

 that it is no great gainer by making an early beginning. 



As will be seen by the names quoted at the commence- 

 ment of this subject, the Red-legged Partridge is sometimes 

 called the Guernsey Partridge, and it is found at Guernsey 

 and Jersey. These Channel Islands, as they are frequently 

 called, were probably at one time the most western locality 



